Best 292 quotes in «tennis quotes» category

I don't know if tennis players feel like that but when you have a great opponent - although I didn't feel like he [ Ben Mendelsohn ] was an opponent - you just know your game is going to jack up and it's just going to raise the bar. I couldn't wait for that elevation.

I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them.

I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that.

I don't need to come back to Wimbledon every year because I can't live without it. I'd be totally cool without tennis.

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.

I don't want to live and die with every point that's being played out there now. I'm going to let my coach live and die with every point.

I'd rather play tennis than go to the dentist. I'd rather play soccer than go to the doctor. I'd rather play Hurk than go to work. Hurk? Hurk? What's Hurk? I don't know but it MUST be better than work!

I feel lucky to live at a time when the dominant tennis players are Venus and Serena Williams. And to have lived through the success of a whole slew of boxers and feel I could invest emotionally and psychologically in their victories, and identify with them in their struggles.

I'd rather be No. 2 in Chile and No. 1 in the world.

I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.

I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.

If I have a daughter and she plays tennis, and I have a son who plays tennis, I wouldn't say that my son deserves more money because he's a man. I would say they deserve the same amount of money.

If I don't do what I need to do to win, I won't win, no matter who is on the other side of the net.

If I wore a sleeveless shirt, people would try to feed me after the match.

If I'm nervous, it means I had to work hard to get there, whether it's playing in a tournament or speaking at an event. So I try to stop and be proud of getting to live in that moment.

If someone says tennis is not feminine, I say screw it.

If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.

If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I'm not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment.

If you don't do something special against Chris Evert you find yourself losing concentration after 35 shots.

If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the screen, then you get this playful challenge thing where you're trying to one-up each other and that's really interesting. Sometimes it can become like tennis. The harder you hit the ball back, then the harder the hit it back to you.

I hate to lose more than I love to win.

If you want to be a tennis player, then mould yourself on Roger Federer. I won three Wimbledon titles and I wish I could play like him.

If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.

I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm probably the happiest guy in the world.

I killed a squirrel once with a car. Twice with a tennis racket.

I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.

I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.

I have always believed that my job is to try and give my best on the tennis courts.

I hope that I have accomplished just one thing: that I have been a credit to tennis and my country.

I know some of my self-worth comes from tennis, and it's hard to think of doing something else where you know you'll never be thebest. Tennis players are rare creatures: where else in the world can you know that you're the best? The definitiveness of it is the beauty of it, but it's not all there is to life and I'm ready to explore the alternatives.

I lost to a better player who played some courageous tennis and deserved to win.

I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

I love swimming, tennis, and I am taking up golf. I am not serious about it, I just go to the range and practice. Other than that, I enjoy going to the movies and hanging out with my friends.

I love tennis. But even if I become the greatest of all time, I still don't only want to be defined by tennis. I'm my own person. And I want to be remembered as I really am. I'm so much more than tennis.

I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is.

I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.

I'm a terrible musician. While the band members are great, I'm tolerated and affectionately regarded because I do movies, but if I had to make my living as a musician I would starve. I'm like a Sunday tennis player.

I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!

I'm a big fan of the Rocky series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.

I made it look so easy on court all those years. No one realized how hard I had to work. No one realized how much I had to put into it. They underestimated my intensity.

I'm not afraid of anyone, but sometimes I'm afraid of myself. The mental part is very important.

I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.

I'm convinced being a tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world.

I'm more in that Rafa Nadal high-energy high-octane mold out there. I wear that emotion on the court. That's how I play my best tennis. People either like that or not. And I can't change that: that's who I am on a tennis court.

I'm not to eager to play tennis in my spare time. I'm more interested in doing gym work and stuff like that. We have a lot of schools and courts around where I live, so if I really want to play I don't need to go too far.

I'm not the next Kournikova-I want to win matches!

I'm not involved in tennis but committed.